Growing up in the Welsh countryside and working at her family’s Chinese takeaway was anything but peaceful, writes Angela Hui in her memoir, Takeaway. With her parents at the helm, [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #85: Becoming a Stand-up Comedian with He Huang
“Hello everyone, my name is He. It’s spelled as H-E. Yes, it is my name, not my pronoun.” Last month, Sydney-based comedian He Huang went viral with her 4-minute Australia’s [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #84: A Conversation with Sue-Lin Wong on ‘The Prince’ podcast & China’s 20th Party Congress
“People have been asking me…what do people need to know about Xi Jinping? And over the course of this podcast, I learned he really fears chaos and he’s obsessed with [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #83: A Map for the Missing, a Conversation with Belinda Huijuan Tang
This week, we talk to Belinda Huijuan Tang about her sweeping and tender debut novel, A Map for the Missing, which was recently longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel [ … ]
Book review: Li Zhang’s “Anxious China” humanizes the country’s mental health crisis
BY MIRANDA JARRETT Early on in my Chinese language studies a decade ago, I struggled to get a clear answer from my teachers on the most accurate way to state [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #82: Chinese Canadian Immigrant Histories with Arlene Chan and Melanie Ng
In this episode of the NüVoices podcast, historians Arlene Chan and Melanie Ng chat with us about the first Chinese migrants who made their way to Canada in the 19th [ … ]
Why it’s misleading to call Xi Jinping the “new Mao”
BY EMILY MATSON As Xi Jinping prepares to cement his power through a much-hyped third term as China’s president, many observers have been quick to compare his leadership with that [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #81: Food journalism & Taiwanese cuisine with Clarissa Wei
This week, veteran food journalist Clarissa Wei joins us on the NüVoices podcast! Clarissa was previously a senior reporter for Goldthread – a publication incubated by the South China Morning [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #79: Taiwan and US Foreign Policy with Meia and Veerle Nouwens
Show notes:“Nancy Pelosi’s Trip to Taiwan Is Too Dangerous” an op-ed in The New York Times by Bonnie S. Glaser and Zack Cooper This week we’re interrupting our summer hiatus [ … ]
Podcast Crossover: Self-Evident, ‘A Day at the Mall’
Hello from our summer hiatus! While we’re away, the pod squad is thrilled to share episodes from podcasts we love and admire. This week, we have an episode from Self-Evident, [ … ]
Podcast Crossover: Time To Say Goodbye on ‘Ascension’, a documentary about Chinese consumerism and labor force
Hello from our summer hiatus! While we’re away, the pod squad is thrilled to share episodes from podcasts we love and admire. This week, we have an episode from Time [ … ]
Book Excerpt: ‘China’s Millennial Digital Generation’ by Karen Ma
What impact did new technology have on China’s post-1980s indie film directors, many of whom came from the nation’s rural and backwater communities? In her new book “China’s Millennial Digital [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #78: Outsourcing Repression, a Conversation with Lynette Ong
Professor Lynette Ong joins us on the podcast this week to discuss her new book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. While in conversation with Joanna Chiu, Lynette discusses China’s [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #77: Voice Actress Nancy Wu on Diversity in Audiobooks
Nancy Wu, a masterful voice actress and audiobook narrator, joins the NüVoices podcast this week to talk about her storied career. She has narrated the “Avatar the Last Airbender” prequels [ … ]
Poet Lerato Mathibe explores feminism, blackness and spirituality in ‘Baby Steps’
BY ELYSE RIBBONS NüProfile is a column featuring conversations with diverse creators working on China-related subjects. “Being black in China is also a blessing that I don’t take for granted,” [ … ]
NüVoices is hiring a podcast producer!
The NüVoices podcast is looking for a new producer! We’d love someone who is experienced in audio editing, cutting tape, and working with hosts to create compelling bi-weekly episodes (every [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #76: A Conversation with Elaine Hsieh Chou on her debut novel, Disorientation
TIME STAMP, SPOILERS FOR DISORIENTATION BEGIN AT: 33:20 We’re delighted to have Elaine Hsieh Chou (pronounced “Shay-Chow”) come on the NüVoices podcast to discuss her debut novel, Disorientation, which came out [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #75: Dancing on Bones book launch, a conversation with Katie Stallard
This week, journalist and former foreign correspondent Katie Stallard joins the NüVoices podcast in a special, live stream recording to celebrate the launch of her new book Dancing on Bones: History [ … ]